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that the intervention of the State in aid of these buildings 

 might call into existence enterprises which were not econo- 

 mically sound, and, moreover, that it would be unfair to 

 dealers in grain ; whereas other branches of the grain business 

 might be equally entitled to participate in the benefits 

 conferred. 



In the spring of 1895, the Baden Government appears to 

 have helped to establish a society which confined itself to 

 cleaning the corn stored in the granary, and to selling it 

 through the managing committee within fourteen days. 

 Another association at Worms sells only upon the order ot 

 the owner. 



The first Government subsidy in aid of storehouses for 

 grain was granted by a law of 3rd June, 1 896, which devoted 

 £150,000 to this purpose. By a further law of June 8th of 

 the present year a second sum of £100,000 has been placed 

 at the disposal of the Government for this object in connec- 

 tion with the simultaneous grant of £3,370,800 to complete 

 the railway system of Germany. The total amount voted by 

 this latter law is thus £3,470,800, apportioned as follows : — 



I. (a) Branch Lines - 2,671,400 



(b) Traffic Requisites, Rolling Stock, etc. - - - 299,400 



II. In aid of construction of light railways - - 400,000 



III. In aid of erection of grain store-houses - - - 100,000 



Total - - - - - - - - 3,470,800 



The Government had already granted, in aid of light 

 railways, a sum of £250,000 in 1895, and £400,000 in 1896, 

 bringing the total, with this year's grant, to £1,050,000. The 

 law gives no indication as to whether the granaries erected 

 with the aid of the present £100,000 grant may be on or near 

 the light railways, nor is any definite information available on 

 this point. 



In the preface to this year's Bill granting the £100,000 in 

 aid of these store-houses, it is stated that agriculturists are 

 now paying more attention to the question of the erection of 

 grain store-houses, and that it is only in Schleswig-Holstein, 

 the Rhenish provinces, Silesia, Posen, and Brandenburg, that 

 reluctance to adopt them has been exhibited. Subsidies for 

 the purpose appear to have been already granted to the Chief 



